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GRAPHIC NOVELS... Teaching Visual Literacy: Using Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Anime, Cartoons, and more to Develop Comprehension and Thinking Skills
Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher
An excellent book for anyone who wants to incorporate visual literacies into the classroom. It helps teachers to define what it is that we are asking students to do when "reading" a visual, thus taking them to a deeper level of understanding.
Teaching Graphic Novels: Practical Stategies for the Secondary ELA Classroom
Kate Monnin
An easy-to-use teacher's guide that helps walk you through the reading of graphic novels, for both middle schoolers and high schoolers. There are even blank handouts that can be reproduced for the classroom.
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud
If going to incorporate comics or graphic novels into your classroom, this book is a great reference. McCloud takes you through various steps to help the novice learner become an expert, and it is even designed as a graphic novel!
Try to include a short annotation to explain the source.
GRAPHIC NOVELS...
Teaching Visual Literacy: Using Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Anime, Cartoons, and more to Develop Comprehension and Thinking Skills
Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher
An excellent book for anyone who wants to incorporate visual literacies into the classroom. It helps teachers to define what it is that we are asking students to do when "reading" a visual, thus taking them to a deeper level of understanding.
Teaching Graphic Novels: Practical Stategies for the Secondary ELA Classroom
Kate Monnin
An easy-to-use teacher's guide that helps walk you through the reading of graphic novels, for both middle schoolers and high schoolers. There are even blank handouts that can be reproduced for the classroom.
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud
If going to incorporate comics or graphic novels into your classroom, this book is a great reference. McCloud takes you through various steps to help the novice learner become an expert, and it is even designed as a graphic novel!